Thursday, 3 November 2011

Alasande Palya…Karnataka Style Long Yard Beans and the WINNER OF OCTOBER is..

Days are passing by and we are kind of getting used to the city but still deep in my heart I long to go back and I keep praying almighty to help us on that.

This week has been terrible for me, all of a sudden I picked up a severe nerve pain in my right hand making me difficult to hold things, so cooking took a back seat. S was kind enough to take me out for dinner and we enjoyed eating Chinese Food at ‘The Cascade’.

I somehow managed to come out of the hand pain but my throat was hit. I am down with severe tonsillitis which has caused fever as well as body pain. The weather here is playing hide and seek, we have rains followed by sunshine and then again the rains…I guess it is the change in temperature that caused an infection. I was getting extremely bored lying down as I am used to a more hectic lifestyle so I decided to post this simple dry curry which is an all time favourite with us.

This curry has been lying in my drafts for a long time and I actually wanted to post it in my other blog Kitchen- Basics as it’s a day to day curry and is easy to try for the beginners but with the current event on Curries going on in this month I decided to post it here.

It’s a quick curry to make and goes well with rice or roti accompanied by Jeerige Kattu. It is made by using the Palya Pudi ( traditional curry powder) which is red in colour and therefore it is also called red palya (dry curry) at my place. Long yard beans are a favourite with all of us and I cook it in many ways, one of which is this..

I picked up the winner from the links left in the October’s giveaway page and the winner is from comment no. 23, Kalyani . Congrats Kalyani, pls email me your address and phone number at cookingoodfood@gmail.com in the next two days, else I will have to pick a new winner.

Hi pari:Take care, and i hope u get well soon dear ! On the name of the winner, the are two kalyanis in the blogosphere nowadays, so just wanted to confirm if i am the lucky one..do let me know n i shall mail u my contact details.Cheers,Kalyani

O' O' that's not nice, You are still home sick (living in a new city), and getting hit with all these problems, O' Pari, do take care love.., I feel like getting stuck these kind of recipes, love this palya always, the broad beans I get here is simply different, with the weather being sooo cold here and no heater, I feel like having nice warming saaru and palya!, lovely palya and lovely clicks...